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Weird Christmas Custom: Spot the Pooping Peasant
By Monica Garske - AOL NewsHoliday traditions such as wrapping gifts and eating fruitcake may suck, but nothing is crappier than a bizarre Christmas custom practiced in Spain. While a typical Nativity scene in most parts of the world usually includes figurines of baby Jesus, Joseph, Mary and their entourage of Wise Men and farm animals, folks in the Catalonia region of Spain add their own weird twist. If you look really closely at Christmas Nativities in Catalan cities like Barcelona or Tarragona, chances are you'll find a strange figurine of a man squatting and pooping somewhere in the manger. There's even a little ...
Julian Assange: Hillary Clinton 'Should Resign'
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyTalk about adding insult to injury. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said Tuesday that Hillary Clinton "should resign" for ordering U.S. diplomats to spy on their foreign counterparts. It was, of course, WikiLeaks that released the secret cables that went out under the Secretary of State's name ordering foreign service agents to collect private data on United Nations officials. Assange made the comment during an exclusive interview with TIME. He was asked whether he would like to see Clinton step down or be fired over the revelations in Sunday's massive document dump. "I don't think it ...
Gmail Outage Outrage: Welcome to the Future
By Bonnie Goldstein - Politics DailyIf you are one of the "more than a million companies and tens of millions of people in 52 languages" who use Gmail, you are acutely aware that the Google e-mail service was down Tuesday for most of the day (actually only 100 minutes, but in Internet time that is an eternity). ...
Michael Jackson Controversy: California Mayor Ordered U.S. Flag at Half-Staff
By Emily Miller - Politics DailyOn the day of Michael Jackson's funeral, Mayor Jim Dear of Carson, Calif., ordered that the American flag outside City Hall be lowered to half-staff, a gesture generally used to honor the deaths of presidents, police officers, firefighters and other heroes. The decision created a national backlash, prompting Dear to make a 180-degree turn -- and mount an effort to ensure mayors follow the rules when lowering the U.S. flag. ...
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